From: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: Language Challenge 2000
Date: 2000/02/04
Date: 2000-02-04T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
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In-Reply-To: 389AB13D.42D3C1C1@maths.unine.ch
In article <389AB13D.42D3C1C1@maths.unine.ch>,
Gautier <gautier.demontmollin@maths.unine.ch> wrote:
> > Criteria:
>
> > a) Execution time
> > b) Size of executable
>
> In addition one can compress the .exe with UPX, keep or not
> keep the debug info, etc.
Or better yet, put all of the code in a runtime library! Then all you'd
need is a call to load the library, and another to transfer control to
the library's main routine. As far as speed goes, odds are this is going
to be a toy problem, where load time will be a significant part of
execution time. So we make sure another program pre-loads the library so
that it is already in memory when the toy program is invoked. We win!
Woo Hoo!
So what language can we use that will make a library load and procedure
call take the least time/space? What a wonderful basis for picking the
language to use for your next project! Reliability? Extensibility?
Portability? Support for programming in the large? Bah!
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-01-31 0:00 Language Challenge 2000 bvoh
2000-02-01 0:00 ` Jim Rogers
2000-02-01 0:00 ` David
2000-02-01 0:00 ` Jim Rogers
2000-02-01 0:00 ` Jeff Carter
2000-02-04 0:00 ` Gautier
2000-02-04 0:00 ` Ted Dennison [this message]
2000-02-04 0:00 ` Vincent DIEMUNSCH
2000-02-04 0:00 ` Vincent DIEMUNSCH
2000-02-04 0:00 ` Gautier
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